Museum, California Center for the Arts
Escondido, CA
760-839-4120
http://www.artcenter.org/
No Sun Without Shadow: The Art of Harry
Sternberg
October 8 - December 31, 2000
"No Sun Without Shadow"
surveys nearly seven decades of work by the great American artist and educator
Harry Sternberg (born 1940) who, after a distinguished career in New York,
moved to Escondido in 1966 where he still resides and maintains an active
studio. "No Sun Without Shadow" will show at California Center
for the Arts, Escondido from Oct. 8 through Dec. 31, 2000.
This
retrospective consists of approximately 100 works - from the "social
realist" drawings, prints, and paintings of the 1920s and 30s to the
more introspective and lyrical work created as recently as 1999 - which
reveal the remarkable continuity of Sternberg's artistic vision and thematic
concerns. A variety of plates, woodblocks, trial proofs, and finished prints
Sternberg executed for selected projects will also be on view. This juxtaposition
of the artist's plates and blocks with the actual etchings and woodcuts
printed from them offers an unusual vantage point for tracing the path of
Sternberg's creative processes. It also enables viewers to better understand
Sternberg's important and widely recognized role as a technical innovator
within the printmaking medium, particularly in the first half of the century.
(left: Desert Moon, ca.1990, acrylic on panel, 28 X 41.125 inches.
Collection of the artist)
The exhibition draws from the artist's own personal archive
as well as from private and public collections from throughout the United
States. It includes several works that have rarely or never before been
on public view as well as examples of Sternberg's magazine work and the
designs for posters and murals commissioned by the United States government
in the late 1930s and 40s.
The
exhibition is organized by the Museum, California Center for the Arts, Escondido,
and curated by Ellen Fleurov, Museum Director. A fully illustrated catalog
written by Ellen Fleurov will accompany the exhibition. "No Sun Without
Shadow" is made possible through the generous support of Robert and
Karen Hoehn. (left; Drilling in a Breast, 1936,. lithograph,
15.25 X 21.375 inches. Collection of the artist)
rev. 6/17/00
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This
retrospective consists of approximately 100 works - from the "social
realist" drawings, prints, and paintings of the 1920s and 30s to the
more introspective and lyrical work created as recently as 1999 - which
reveal the remarkable continuity of Sternberg's artistic vision and thematic
concerns. A variety of plates, woodblocks, trial proofs, and finished prints
Sternberg executed for selected projects will also be on view. This juxtaposition
of the artist's plates and blocks with the actual etchings and woodcuts
printed from them offers an unusual vantage point for tracing the path of
Sternberg's creative processes. It also enables viewers to better understand
Sternberg's important and widely recognized role as a technical innovator
within the printmaking medium, particularly in the first half of the century.
(left: Desert Moon, ca.1990, acrylic on panel, 28 X 41.125 inches.
Collection of the artist)